The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-12
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. TUESDAY, JULY y. 1887.

employ 1000 men in making every thing in
rolling stock from freight and passenger cars to
locomotives. 1t will cost 81, SOC, 000
The exposition to be held at Louisville this
fall will be attended largely by Northern manu-
facturers who want to sell machinery in the
South.
planning mill, 405 by 154 feet, is to be
erected at Buffalo. Competitors for machinery
will be allowed to run their machinery for sixty
days before buying
In order to force the Delamater Iron Com
pany. of New York. to reinstate its discharged
men strike is to be ordered in all the works
which use its pumps
The Painters National Trade District will
hold a convention in Philadelphia on July q.
The Germans in this city have nearly all with
drawn from the knights.
No less than one hundred towns and cities are
now contracting for material for gas. water, or
electric-lighting appliances. all OF which helps
the iron and iron-pipemakers.
During the first six months Of this year six of
the leading Western cities expended 20 per cent.
cnore in building than last year. Minneapolis
shows an increase of 20 per cent
The Chinese Knights in New York have been
transferred to mixed assemblies Thu Michigan
Knights will meet on Aug 2 There over
three hundred local assemblies in one State.
The busiest mechanics in the country are
builders of motive power for steam and electric
ity. One New York company sold $3.50 horse
power capacity in May and June. AL shops are
oversold.
the largest pulp pump ever made il now be-
ing completed in Appleton, Wis, and linen
works have been completed in the same place.
and filed with machinery brought from Belfast
Ireland
There ie great activity ia the works on
the Pacific coast The stern-post for the cruiser
Charleston just cast is tho largest casting ever
made there, add when compile ted will weigh To-
600 pounds
A glass factory will begin making glass in At
lanta. Ga. on Aug Is. Louisville Ratchet
factory covering a square 425 feet long gets its
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81 GA per day.
The Beleians are selling Orders in the heart of
the iron-making districts of England at S. per
ton less than they can be made for there. The
Chinese government has just ordered 5000 tons
of steel rails in England
Only four furnaces are running in the She
mango valley. All the rest banked
count of the short supply of coke. steel mill
IS run in Columbus. o., with gas made from
slack. great manv iron and steel works
increasing their capacity
The architects have had very busy year. and
at this time all those of recognized merit are
tects have been crowded with engagements, and
quite number of the profession have been leav-
ing Eastern cities for better opportunities,
mining engineer of repute estimates that 81
per cent. of the fuel used for metalur9ical pur-
poses goes up the chimney. Seven hundred
pounds of coal are required to melt five hundred
pounds Of iron, over 900 heat units.
while theoretically only $50, 600 are required.
Montgomery, Ala. has fifteen miles Of electric
railway, costing $175. 900. The employment of
electric safety lamps is strongly favored in Eng
land. INDUS, o.. will have three and one
half mile electric road. The electrical supply
houses are very busy, and engagements are in
progress.
The building trades are promised even greater
activity in the West. where the railroad compa-
MES and manufacturing interests are enlarging
rapidly. The prospects for manufacturers of all
kinds of building and railway material supplies
are very favorable Tools large and small, are
in great demand.
Coke is SO scarce in the South that six to ten
furna es will soon be obliged to bank up or blow
out. The present weekly capacity of the 3l4
furnaces in blast IN the United States is lO4. $50
tons, of which 136 are anthracite furnaces pro-
ducing 81 662 tons per week. a decline of about
2, 600 tons per week since May.
The New York coopers propose to make the
following demands on their employers: Ten hours
q day, permission TO buy beer morning and aft
ernoon. overtime non-union men to be
employed, wages SO day, piece-work only
one apprentice to ten men, all work to have union
label. An answer is demanded before August
Is.
There is a quiet humring OF subdued voices
among tie paper manufacturers over the possi-
bility of advancing the price of book. news ard
other papers in the fall. The epveIope-makers,
fourteen in number have advanced prices 20
per cent. Tho annual meeting of the straw
board manufacturers will be held at Akron,
Ohio, on Tuesday.
Manufacturers and architects have had their
attention called to q fre-proof paper board
made of composition containing 60 per cent.
vegetable fibre, 20 per cent. ashes, 10 per cent.
alum or copperas, and 10 per cent. plunnbago,
lamp black or venetian red. It is mixed in a
pulp engine and run through an ordinary paper
machine into boards. and is found to have great
fire resisting properties.
The jouTneymen tailors Of New York will
have annual convention on August s, at
Ravenswood, L. l. One hundred and fifty terra
Gotta Knights have been discharged for union
ism. The Brooklyn blue stone-cutters are very
busy. New York State printing has been
awarded to union house Another tieup is
threatened on sthe Park avenue cable road as
the men have to work sixteen hours per day.
"The demand for labor is still fully Up to the
supply in nearly all handicrafts. In few
branches there is an insufficient supply of skilled
labor. In some few localities common labor is
in excess. but the workmen have means to ger
away. and do not loiter long idle. Very few
changes are being made in wages Several
eight-hour victories have been quietly won.
The system of arbitration is gaining in favor
and a sentiment is working against it.
Textile manufacturers complain that import
ed wooens and worsteds take the place OF
American products. and are laying off several
mills The total value of increase of wooens
and worsted importations for the first four
months of this were 81. $50, 443. Total value
OF importations $40. 131, 145. There are thirty
eight wooden mills in Leeds making goods for |
the American market An American manufact-
urer recent visit to Bradford, England, |
saw 30, 600 pieces ready for shipment to this |